On the 29th of April 2026 three men were stabbed in Golders Green. Two of them were Jewish, most people didn't hear about the third. This is of course, not because the first two were Jewish, but because the third was a Muslim. On the night of the 4th of May 2026, a former synagogue, which is currently being purchased as a site for a new Islamic community centre, was set alight. Counter Terror police are investigating the incident. The British press ran with "arson on former synagogue". This omission of course, has nothing to do with that it was a synagogue and everything to do with the fact it would become a mosque. On the 19th of July 2022 it was published in the Forde Report that Labour had a "hierarchy of racism" that although discrimination against Jewish people (for example) is not uncommon, their proximity to whiteness and "western values" means that claims of anti semitic discrimination are taken more seriously than of other marginalised groups. The failure to acknowledge this…
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